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Day 21 (03/01/2003) Up at 06:30, and I felt great it was the first time in 20 days that I had slept in a bed. We had breakfast and by 08:30 we were on our way to Beit Bridge border post, on the way we took in a few sites and spent the rest of our Zim $ buying kudu biltong. After clearing the...

Day 20 (02/01/2003) Up at 06:00 and we had breakfast before leaving Biques at 09:00. The weather was good for traveling a bit overcast with a slight drizzle. John was experiencing a horrible vibration at about 85km/h, so we maintained a slow speed and I decided to fall back a bit and would...

Day 19 (01/01/2003) I got up at 07:30, and there wasn’t much life out of John or Bob’s tents. They finally got up but were still suffering from slurred speech, they had apparently carried on partying until about 04:30, and where still feeling the effects of the alcohol that they had consumed...

Day 18 (31/12/2002) We were up at 06:00 and at about 08:15 John received a phone call from the BMW representative in South Africa, informing him that they had mysteriously lost is front rim. I now have to say, that at least Honda would have told you in the beginning that there was no way in...

Day 17 (30/12/2002) Up at 03:45 and we were on the road at 05:00, the first 200km to Macuba was a mixture of good tar and bad gravel and on this stretch the road exists but the bridges don’t, but we still made good time and arrived at about 07:30. We had planned to fill up in Macuba, which...

Day 16 (29/12/2002) We were up at 04:30 and on the road at 06:15, we knew we were going to have a long day in the saddle. The first 60km took us about 1.5 hours through the thick sand and bush, and we did come across some freshly laid elephant dug. Once on the tar we maintained a good average...

Day 15 (28/12/2002) Up at 06:00, it had rained the whole night and it was still drizzling, explored the village and lazed around for most of the day swimming and sharing notes with different travelers. We ordered some crayfish for the evening, but due to the miserable weather the fisherman...

Day 14 (27/12/2002) Up at 05:00 and left camp at 06:30, we went into town for the usual photo and petrol stops. While in town I was again stopped by the friendly officials who where trapping with a radar gun, no luck again I was under the speed limit, but they did complain about me riding with...

Day 13 (26/12/2002) Up at 04:45 and we where on our way at 06:30, first we went into Nacala to take a few photos and fill up with petrol. We rode on new tar road so the bikes were eating up the distance that we needed to do for the day, so when we arrived at the Lurio river we decided to take...

Day 12 (25/12/2002) Up at 06:00, lazed around and shared some notes with fellow travelers in the camp next door who were coming down from the north. My right leg is still in pain and is about twice its size from the knee down, got the camp personnel to do some washing and then helped Bob to...

Day 11 (24/12/2002) Up at 05:00 and still in pain, I bandaged up my knee and decided to bear with it. We were on the road at 07:30, and I found it very difficult to use the back brake due to the pain, and with the roads still very wet from the previous days rains progress was very slow 40km/h...

Day 10 (23/12/2002) Up at 04:30 as this was going to be a hard day of over 550km of gravel according to local information, we left camp at 06:00, in town we filled up with petrol and where told that the road to Moma was in good condition, so once we were moving we maintained a average speed of...

Day 9 (22/12/2002) Up at 06:00, and has we had decided the night before that we where only going to leave camp at 10:00, I went for a swim and took some photos. From info that we had received from the locals, we where to experience tar roads all the way to Mucubela and then the last 60km would...

Day 8 (21/12/2002) Up at 05:00 and packed up camp in between a few good downpours of rain. We said our goodbyes to John and left for the petrol stations. Here we filled up our tanks and the jerry cans with petrol has we knew that there wasn’t going to be any petrol for the next +/- 650km as we...

Day 7 (20/12/2002) Woke up at about 06:00, can’t seem to sleep any later as the heat becomes unbearable. We strolled to the restaurant for an English breakfast and discussed what choices to take to try to get John and bike back to South Africa. John made a few phone calls to South Africa...

Day 6 (19/12/2002) Up at 04:45 has we wanted to take some photos of Beira and still get an early start, we left camp at about 06:45 and organized to meet Chris, Hein and Johan at the petrol station at about 07:30, Chris had also decided that they would go up to Quelimane and then head off to...

Day 5 (18/12/2002) Up at 05:30 and we left Vilankulos at 07:30. We made good time, has there wasn’t much scenery along the way, apart from some old Portuguese architecture in building of bridges. As luck would have it we managed to find petrol just before crossing the Sena River, this was...

No one caught the dreaded disease.Guess I have to say we were lucky and sure everyone was taking tablets.

Day 4 (17/12/2002) Up at 05:00, very bad nights sleep, the Rodeo boys and Hein had decided to shift into top gear and proceed to keep the whole campsite awake with there conversation and music, and to top it all up, Hein decides at 06:00 that it is now time to sleep, I unfortunately had other...

Day 3 (16/12/2002) Up at 06:00 and packed up camp before it got to hot. Went for a refreshing swim followed by a welcomed shower and by 10:00 we left camp for Inhambane to fill up with petrol and be ready to leave at about 11:15. Another taste of Mozambique at Christmas time, no petrol in...